Guide to the ARCHIVES of The Norwegian-American Historical ...

The constitution and minutes of the meetings of Fremad, a Goodhue County,
Minnesota, debating society, organized to promote good citizenship. The programs
consisted largely of debates on such topics as capital punishment, the power of the
press, equitable taxes, restricted immigration, the discovery of America, direct
elections, the Farmers Alliance, the preservation of the Norwegian language in
America, and the effects of machinery on labor.
336. FREMAD READING CLUB. CATALOG. 1 item. P 1447.
An accession list of titles of 409 books owned by a Beaver Creek, Wisconsin,
“Læseselskab.”
337. FREMMEGAARD, ARNE (1883-1946). SCRAPBOOK. 1 volume. P 849.
A scrapbook of clippings and photographs concerning Norwegian Americans and
their activities in Minneapolis.
Fremmegaard, a Minneapolis banker, came from Norway in 1924. He was general
chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the visit of Crown Prince
Olav and Crown Princess Mærtha in 1939.
338. FREMSTAD, OLIVE (1861-1951). PHONOGRAPH RECORDS. 2 items. P 992.
Recordings of operatic arias made by a soprano of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, New York. Born of Swedish and Norwegian parentage, she came with
her parents to Minnesota when they left Norway in the early 1880s. She went to
Germany to study in 1892 and made her debut in the Cologne Opera House in
1898. She was the leading soprano for the Metropolitan from 1903 to 1918.
Included are clippings (1898-1951) and a 1948 letter by Erling Nicolaysen
supplying information on the Fremstad family in Halden, Norway.
Willa Cather’s Song of the Lark is her imaginative reconstruction of Fremstad’s early
life. For a biographical memoir, see The Rainbow Bridge, by Mary Watkins Cushing.
339. FRIBERT, LAURITS J. (b. 1808). HANDBOOK, CHRISTIANIA, 1847. 96 typescript
pages. P 101.
Haandbog for emigranter til Amerikas vest is a typewritten copy of a published work by
Fribert, a former Danish official, who farmed near Pine Lake, Wisconsin, from 1843
to about 1847. Although containing comments on Indians, church, and government,
it is largely a discussion of methods of agriculture.
340. FRIES, L. A. PAPERS, 1968-1969. 2 items. P 705.
Letters containing data regarding Knud Langeland, Søren Bache, Mons Adland,
and the Beaver Creek and Muskego settlements.
341. FROHLIN, JOHN (1878-1958). PAPERS. 6 items. P 803.
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